Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Sat Jun 16 10:22:40 UTC 2007


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:38:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Indigo 23 wrote:
>>
>>> the ports? (I already know that it does require a recompilation of
>>> world and the kernel).
>> AFAIK nobody has succeeded in this (i.e. upgrading i386 to amd64 via
>> buildkernel/world) on-line far enough to tell the tale. You might be the
>> first :)
> 
> Nah, I've done it several times.

That's good news. Are there any particular problems in the process or
does it "just work"?

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